Chapter 7 feedback

[SimonDarksideJ]

Feedback related to chapter 7

[SimonDarksideJ]

You have not used the term “directory” in previous chapters, and neither does VS Code use it. Keep your terms consistent, as not everyone knows what you may be referencing if you randomly use a new term and never clarify its meaning, especially when the software doesn’t use the term itself. Use folder if you’ve used it in previous chapters, like the one you’ve referenced.

[SimonDarksideJ]

Note about the creating class steps:

Directly copying and pasting each section beneath each other will result in errors at the end, since everything after the first set of code needs to be inside the final brackets {} of the class. Directly following your steps will lead to an error when trying to run the code later, so it's worth making clear that if you’re following along, then everything needs to be contained so if they are just mindlessly following along and copy pasting, they know what they need to do to make it work. Same on 08 & 09.

[AristurtleDev]

You have not used the term “directory” in previous chapters, and neither does VS Code use it. Keep your terms consistent, as not everyone knows what you may be referencing if you randomly use a new term and never clarify its meaning, especially when the software doesn’t use the term itself. Use folder if you’ve used it in previous chapters, like the one you’ve referenced.

Where appropriate, directory has been changed to folder through all chapters

There are some instances where directory is kept, such as when referring to the Contnet.RootDirectory property since it's explicitly named directory.

[AristurtleDev]

Note about the creating class steps:

Directly copying and pasting each section beneath each other will result in errors at the end, since everything after the first set of code needs to be inside the final brackets {} of the class. Directly following your steps will lead to an error when trying to run the code later, so it's worth making clear that if you’re following along, then everything needs to be contained so if they are just mindlessly following along and copy pasting, they know what they need to do to make it work. Same on 08 & 09.

The snippets have been updated to have the { } in the class declaration part on separate lines such as

public class Foo
{

}

However, this tutorial series is stated up front in the introduction that it is not meant for someone that is new to C#, and provides resources for learning C#. If they have a foundational understanding of C# and object-oriented programming, as is recommended in the tutorial introduction, then they should know to place the following code sections within the { } of the class itself.

The tutorial series focus on MonoGame, not teach the basics of writing C# code.